Golf club holding clip



March 11,. 1952 c. B. PAYNE GOLF CLUB HOLDING CLIP Filed Aug. 11, 1949Inventor Car/0s a Paym Patented Mar. 11, 1952 "GOLF CLUB HOLDING CLIPCarlos B. Payne, San Antonio, .Tex., assignor of twenty per cent toJulius A. Bass, San An tonio, Tex.

Application August 11, 1949, Serial No. 109,733

'2 Claims. 1

The present invention relates to certain new and useful improvements ina unique article holding clip and has reference in particular to a clipwhich is designed to be attached to the waistband of the users trousersor to a body encircling belt, said clip being especially, but notnecessarily, designed and adapted to support a conventional golf club inan out-of-the-way :position.

Needless to say, I am aware that clips which are attachable to belts forarticle supporting purposes are not broadly new; that one would findU-shaped clips, for example, used on and in connection with key-ringchains, for supporting flash lights, umbrellas, key-rings, and so on.Oddly enough and despite the miscellaneous uses for inverted U-shapedbelt clips, none has been perfected to conveniently support the headedend of a golf club. In such circumstances, I have evolved and produced asimple, practical and economical clip which will serve to accomplish theends wanted and in which manufacturers and users will find their needsand requirements present and conveniently available.

In carrying out the principles of this invention, I provide a springclip which preferably applies to the wearers belt and whose outer limbportion is fashioned with an angularly disposed resilient grip toembrace the handle portion of a golf club, whereby to support the golfclub conveniently and with requisite nicety in an out-of-the-wayposition, whereby to enable the golfer to have both hands free formiscellaneous needs and purposes.

Other objectives, features and advantages will become evident from thefollowing description.

and accompanying illustrative drawings.

In the sheet of drawings, wherein like numerals are employed todesignate like parts throughout the views:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a golf club ac commodating and holdingclip constructed in accordance with the principles of the invention andshowing the manner in which the same is advantageously used;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, looking in the directionof the arrows; and

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank of sheet material from which thenovel clip and holder is fashioned.

The clip portion of the device, which may be said to be of invertedU-shaped form, is denoted by the numeral 5 and is of resilient sheetmaterial and comprises a relatively long limb 6, a complemental shorterspaced parallel limb 1 and lateral flange H.

a connective bend 8. Limb 6 has an identation 9 which constitutes afriction detent. This detent presses against the belt B of the wearer.Incidentally, the clip may be applied, if desired, to the waistband WBof the wearers trousers T. The lower end portion of limb I hasadiagonally disposed resilient channel-type grip l0 and a The flange isof such form and angularity that it facilitates feeding the shaftportion S of the golf club C into the grip ID. The flange may also beused as a fingerpiece to spread the grip to open position whereby tofacilitate removing the club. The club is preferably put in the grip atthe angle shown close to the head H.

My novel clip and holder combined, unitarily speaking, is fashioned froma single piece of material, such as commercial plastics, steel,aluminum, rubber or leather covered steel or whatever proves out to bemost successful for intended purposes.

In practice, the clip portion 5 is of springy construction and isdetachably and readily applicable to either the belt or waistband of thetrousers where it will stay put. When thus applied it presents, at aconvenient place and angle, a golf club. The shaft portion is secured inthe channel grip with the head end of the club preferably up and withthe shaft disposed at an angle of approximately 30 or 40 degrees. Thiswill eliminate any possible swinging of the golf club and will enable itto be conveniently situated either close to the left or right hip of thewearer.

I deem it advisable, to enable the reader to better appreciate the truesignificance of the invention, to give a few examples of definiteoccasions when one might want to use my clip for supporting the golfclub near at hand but outof-the-way. These occasions are: While lightingcigarettes, autographing, rummaging through pockets without having tohold club in crook of arm, assisting other golfers where two hands mightbe necessary, carrying occasional other items on the golf course wheretwo hands are required, or in an instance where a golfer dismisses hiscaddy temporarily to hunt for a lost ball and such golfer wishes tocarry two clubs with him for the next several anticipated golf shots.Numerous other uses for ridding ones self of a golf club for a fewmoments can and do arise.

Referring to the blank shown in Fig. 3, the main body portion, which isused to make the clip is denoted by the numeral 5 as already denoted.

Then the remainder of the elements are indicated or denoted by the samereference numerals or lead lines already employed and for this reason Ineed only add that the numerals I2 and I3 designate fold lines whichdefine the aforementioned bend 8, that the score lines l4 and [5 areused to define the region which is bent to provide the aforementionedspring clip l0.

It is thought that persons skilled in the art to which the inventionrelates will be able to obtain a clear understanding of the inventionafter considering the description in connection with the drawings.Therefore, a more lengthy description is regarded as unnecessary.

Minor changes in the shape, size and arrangement of details comingwithin the field of invention claimed may be resorted to in actualpractice, if desired.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A combined belt clip and holder for the headed end of a singleconventional-type golf club comprising a relatively broad inverted U-shaped resilient clip embodying an inward relatively long limb of alength appreciably greater than the width of the user's belt so that thelower end will project to a position below the lower edge of the belt ina manner to support and assist in distributing the weight and loadimposed thereon when the golf club is being carried in the holder, andan outward short limb, said short limb terminating in a portion which ischannelshaped in cross-section and said portion constituting a clubshank cradling grip, the latter being at an oblique angle to theeffective vertical position of the clip, the outer wall of said griphaving a flaring lip adapted to pilot the stated shank into carryingposition in said grip.

2. The structure specified in claim 1 wherein the obliquity of said gripis at an approximate angle to the horizontal, the upper end of the gripterminating flush with the adjacent edge portion of said inner and outerlimbs and the lower end of said grip protruding below the lower end ofthe long limb.

CARLOS B. PAYNE.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Lapin Feb. 28, 1933

